Do also consider Sangean which is a Taiwanese brand especially popular in Australia. Bought one in Dubai many years ago and used it regularly for several years. Still use it occasionally for FM. Very good FM reception and sound.
I want to share my recent experience on radio buying. After I bought my Panasonic RF-800U radio from Dubai and it turned out to be far poor quality reception, I still kept looking for more radios.
On Alibaba site I liked some 9 band or 12 band radios from Leotec.
LEOTEC ELECTRONICS LIMITED
I gave photos of the radio to my friend who visited China for 10 days. He was in Shanghai and Beijing (5 days each) and he asked multiple stores in the cities for such multiband portable radios and none had it.
Followed by that, my brother visited Hongkong recently for 5 days trip. He went to local Flea market asking for radio antennas, Tecsun loop, Kaito AN200 Loop or Sangean AN-05. And those shopkeepers were stunned. None had it, none know about or sell anything like radios or antennas.
Hence we can assume that, thought China manufactures large quantity and variety of radio sets starting 1 band to 12 bands, the same is hardly available within China. All or most are exported.
A customer support from Leotec HK replied to me that if I need I can buy their radio from the Leotec factory in India or Dubai. I was shocked. Leotec Hongkong manufacturing radios in India?
My hunt for multiband analog high quality radio continues even today.![]()
these radios are outdated just like cassete players nowadays running a sdr radio on a windows or android tablet looks much more high tech and classy also the digital options of selectivity and sensitivity makes you feel like a boeing 777 pilot this super features makes even the sony icf 2001d look like a hath gadi compared to sdr who looks like a mercedes benz.. i put it in as easy and simple way to move on and keep up with today technology plus sdr look like usb dongle or pen drive hence no customs duty as no one know about sdr in india customs yet.Hi group.
I have been following the discussions in this section of the forum for the past few days.
I want to buy the Tecsun PL-660 receiver for my personal use. I have been looking around in South Mumbai.
The shopkeepers are very ignorant and its difficult to explain to them what I am wanting. I guess there must be some niche sellers who would know about radios and models like this. Normal audio sellers don't know and don't want to know about SW receivers.
I have seen the internet prices. The standard price is around 120 USD plus 35 USD of postage. But the Indian Ebay lists it at 13500.
If anyone knows where these receivers are available in Mumbai then please do let me know. Otherwise if you can point me to a few places where I can enquire, it would help me to search.
best wishes,
Jawed Ahmed
Can you tell us more about SDR, thanks.these radios are outdated just like cassete players nowadays running a sdr radio on a windows or android tablet looks much more high tech and classy also the digital options of selectivity and sensitivity makes you feel like a boeing 777 pilot this super features makes even the sony icf 2001d look like a hath gadi compared to sdr who looks like a mercedes benz.. i put it in as easy and simple way to move on and keep up with today technology plus sdr look like usb dongle or pen drive hence no customs duty as no one know about sdr in india customs yet.
Jawed Bhai, I, like you is in search of a good quality radio, whether analogue, transistor or digital like yours. I congratulate you for getting the digital radio. How is it working? Is it worth the price? What stations you listen to? Since you live at Mumbai, I request you to message me some famous Radio Stores where I can buy a good radio. I want a MW/SW/FM set only with excellent reception. I live at Paradip where radio signal presence is very very poor. I bought some 17 radios in my last 30 years. But, when I came here in 2002 each one of these radios have become useless.Hi group.
I have been following the discussions in this section of the forum for the past few days.
I want to buy the Tecsun PL-660 receiver for my personal use. I have been looking around in South Mumbai.
The shopkeepers are very ignorant and its difficult to explain to them what I am wanting. I guess there must be some niche sellers who would know about radios and models like this. Normal audio sellers don't know and don't want to know about SW receivers.
I have seen the internet prices. The standard price is around 120 USD plus 35 USD of postage. But the Indian Ebay lists it at 13500.
If anyone knows where these receivers are available in Mumbai then please do let me know. Otherwise if you can point me to a few places where I can enquire, it would help me to search.
best wishes,
Jawed Ahmed